In a short silence, Ryuji Chiba didn't reply, and looked to the side: "Miss Isaki, please leave it to you outside." ”

"Surely. ”

Isagi didn't mind him breaking away and left calmly, not forgetting to take the bottle of Yamazaki on the table.

After the door closed, only Chiba and Huaishi were left in the silent luxury private room.

"Speaking of which, we've never had such an intimate conversation, Mr. Paper. ”

Chiba Ryuji took out another bottle of good wine, and after pouring a glass for Huai Shi, he sighed with emotion: "Originally, I wanted to summon you to my command, I thought we must have a lot of common language, but I didn't expect that it was the old man who was born Tianmu who started one step earlier." ”

Huai Shi frowned suspiciously, not understanding what he meant.

And Chiba Ryuji raised his wine glass to toast, raised his head and drank it all, raised his sleeve to wipe the wine left by his beard, and said bluntly: "I admire you very much, even now, I appreciate you very much, because you are different from others." ”

"Mr. Chiba has won an award. ”

Huai Shi replied: "If it is solicited, it will be exempted, and there is no idea of changing the court for the time being." ”

"Haha, no, no, I don't like to take people's hearts, this kind of thing is like the relationship between men and women, you love me is right, and I don't have a beautiful daughter like Pear Blossom. ”

Chiba laughed, got up, and motioned for Huai Shi to come along.

Walked to the window and pointed to the brilliant neon lights shining below.

Looking down from the highest point in the inner circle of Tamba.

"Did you see, Huaiji-kun, this is the Imperial Hotel, there is the property of the Ochiai family, and there is the trading company of the Shengtianmu family...... Well, there's still Jingtong Electronics that belongs to you, and there, it should be the Huai Paper Group, right? From here, to there, this is the inner circle of Danbo. ”

His fingers turned to point elsewhere:

"I have a garment factory here, an investment company here, and I have six storefronts below the Imperial Hotel, in the most prosperous part of the inner circle of Tambo...... By the way, haven't you been running a fresh market lately? I have a seafood company at the docks. ”

As if showing off his billions of family assets, Chiba Ryuji babbled and said, and in the end, told him: "You can choose any of these, and they will be regarded as compensation for you." ”

Huai Shi was stunned and incomprehensible.

"I didn't win the game, and if it was a league decision, I would have to follow it. Why do you want to compensate me again?" he said, "I don't see any need to make amends. ”

"If you want to say it, how about it be funded?"

Ryuji Chiba shook his head and laughed, sipping the wine in his glass: "What you told Akasaki has been spreading in the alliance in the past two days. To tell you the truth, I envy you very much. ”

He whispered, "Very, very envious of you—no, even jealousy is not an exaggeration, is it? As far as I'm concerned, you're shining to the point of being an eyesore, and if possible, I would very much like to make you disappear from the inner circle of Tambo." ”

In the reflection of the glass, the smile in Ryuji's eyes gradually faded, and it was calm and hairy.

Maybe that's what Ryuji Chiba really looks like.

When he breaks free from the intoxication of alcohol and beauty, he becomes the ruler of the inner circle of Tanba, redeeming the former Chiba family from the brink of ruin, and single-handedly achieving the ultimate domination of Nakako.

But Huai Shi was still calm, standing in front of the window, looking down at the night below, and when she turned around, her expression became confused.

"I don't remember what taboo I violated, Mr. Chiba. He asked curiously, "Do you need me to apologize?"

Ryuji Chiba asked rhetorically, "If I say yes, will you?"

"I will. ”

Huai Shi replied: "No hesitation." ”

But Chiba was amused and shook his head slowly: "Huai Paper-kun, you are also a hypocritical person...... There is no need for such a false ceremony.

I don't have a reason to get rid of you. ”

He raised his hand and patted the shoulder of the young man in front of him: "I know your ambitions, and I understand your purpose, and I know that if you make it bigger, it will shake the League's rule over the inner circle of Tambo in the future."

But it doesn't matter, I don't care, to be exact, neither Shengtianmu nor I think you can succeed. ”

Ryuji Chiba told him, "Because we've all tried the same thing as you. ”

Huai Shi was stunned in place.

"You know what? I'm forty-one years old, and I'm middle-aged, but sometimes women have back pain after sleeping. When you get up in the middle of the night to pee more often, you will miss the old days, and you will miss the body and deeds of your youth. Envy of those who are young, bright, and able to sparkle......"

Ryuji Chiba shook the ice cubes in the cup and sneered: "No matter how stupid I was when I was young, no matter how unbearable the past was, now when I think about it, I am full of so-called 'hope'." ”

He said, "We were like you now. ”

"The old man of Shengtianmu once worked hard, but he was embarrassed like a dog for this, and he was disgraced, but in the end he still failed, I was a little smarter, and I chose to give up early, and in the end, I did my best, and I could only maintain the continuation of the Chiba family. ”

He smiled self-deprecatingly and looked at Huaishi: "Water, food, medical care, and education...... What you've done is much more realistic than I was back then, Paper-kun, but there's one thing you've overlooked throughout—"

Chiba Ryuji stared into Huaishi's eyes and asked softly:

"—you want to make them better, but do they really want to?"

Huai Shi shook her head and replied without thinking: "Does anyone want to live in hell?"

Chiba smiled, "Then you go downstairs to the hall and ask those beautiful girls, tell them to stop being prostitutes, there is a stable job with a monthly salary of 50,000 yen can be given to you, do you think they will scoff at it?"

You go and tell the little brother, don't do the extreme path again, we can do it again...... But where are there so many opportunities in life to start all over again? If you miss it, you miss it.

How can those who have been accustomed to theft, fraud, betrayal, and violence since childhood return to normal order?

When you are forty or fifty years old, you feel old, you find that you have achieved nothing, you will be afraid, you will regret, you will cry bitterly, but where else can you take them in except sweatshop?

When the time comes, where will you go but this only hell that will contain you?"

"There are always people who wishfully think that the world can be a good place if given the opportunity. But there's no shortage of opportunities in this world, is there?

So why is it still so bad?"

In Huaishi's silence, Chiba Ryuji calmly told him: "Huaishi, even if you can give them countless opportunities, you can't stop people who are willing to fall.

Even if it is a short-term change, it will not be long before the true nature will be revealed. When man gets used to living in a place where there is no light, he can no longer leave the darkness......"

"You know? There were people before you who worked as hard and as hopefully. Chiba Ryuji said, "That person's name is called Mirai Divine City." ”

"Divine City?" Huai Shi was stunned, suspecting that she had misheard: "The future of Divine City?"

"Yes, Shencheng, that madman you know, the future of Shencheng. ”

Ryuji Chiba laughed mockingly: "It's funny, isn't it? The former redeemer now wants to tie the entire clan to the chariot.

He has come to us before, like you, thinking that he can change everything, hoping that we can help him. But we didn't.

We watched him struggle, watched him fail, and finally watched him leave alone...... His assets were swallowed up by his own allies, his good intentions were betrayed by his supporters, and his hopes were trampled into mud by those he wanted to help.

From the beginning to the end, we have not stood in any way.

Because the inner circle of Danbo is such a cruel place, it is like a living one, it will kill everything that does not belong to itself, and it will change everyone who wants to change, including the future of the Divine City, including Shengtianmu, and also me and you.

It's not something that one person's efforts can change, and it's not something that a group of people's sacrifices can undo. ”

As he spoke, Ryuji Chiba raised his hand and pointed out the floor-to-ceiling window, the glorious city.

"Look, Wai Paper.

There is Kyoto Tower, here is Chuo-ku, and there is the direction of Shimizuban, Ukyo, Sakyo, Higashiyama, Yamashina, Nishikyo, Shimokyo......

You see how big and brilliant the outside world is.

If you look down from the sky, the so-called inner circle of Tamba, the Tamba district, is such a narrow place, compared to this city, it is as small as a garbage can.

Regardless of whether we are high or low, we are all ants who survive here, prisoners imprisoned here, and we are just the 'kings of the infinite universe' in this kernel. ”

He turned his back to the brilliant lights, and his smile became self-deprecating and quirky, "You want to take power from the alliance and use it to change all this, but you are simply looking in the wrong direction - it was never the alliance that ruled the inner circle of Tambo, it was the inner circle of Tambo that ruled the alliance!"

And it won't accept the change you want. ”

In the long silence, Chiba Ryuji stared at the young man in front of him, but until the end, that resolute look did not change in any way.

No matter how shaken, shocked and hesitant it is.

"Thank you for the reminder and warning, Mr. Chiba. ”

Huai Shi replied calmly: "Even so, I will not give up." ”

"So, it's good to be young......"

Chiba shook his head and waved his hand indifferently: "Huai Paper, you can work hard, we won't stop you, but you will fail, everything you try will not succeed, your efforts are meaningless."

Now, you're good to go. ”

In the distance, the bell rang at twelve o'clock.

Enthusiastic cheers rang out outside the box, celebrating the birth of a new generation of gambling kings. Outside the window, brilliant fireworks rose into the sky, illuminating the young man's eyes.

It's like a fire lit in the abyss.

"Mr. Chiba, maybe I'll end up failing, but I don't think my efforts will be in vain—"

Even though he knew the final outcome, he was still smiling: "No matter how much it takes, even if only one person can be saved because of this, I believe it will be worth it." ”

With that, he said goodbye politely and turned to leave.

The door closed.

In the silence, Ryuji Chiba didn't speak again, just quietly stared at the light in the night sky in the distance, raised his head, and drank the last remnants of wine.

After the two watches, ask for a monthly pass~

(End of chapter)